Cyprus peace process

Perhaps time has come to try to convince the two peoples of Cyprus that what the two leaders and negotiating teams have been discussing ?discreetly?

U.N. Security Council backing for the reunification of Cyprus is ?encouraging,? though no timetable is in the cards, the United Nations Special Adviser on Cyprus said July 22.

A ?United Cyprus Federation? has been on the agenda of resumed negotiations with the Greek side of the divided island, Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Ak?nc? has said.

Britain is ready to offer a reunified Cyprus large swathes of British bases territory on the island in the event of a peace deal, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says Britain is ready to offer a reunified Cyprus large swathes of British bases territory on the island in the event of a peace deal, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said July 18.

Long-divided Cyprus has no better chance than now to strike a UN-brokered peace deal, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told the Greek Cypriot parliament on July 17.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is to start his first official visit to Greek Cyprus on July 16 for talks on the bailed-out island's economy and the UN-brokered peace process.

Rival Cypriot leaders said after negotiations on July 10 that any UN-brokered peace settlement for their divided island would be based on European Union principles.

A second simultaneous referendum on Cypriot reunification could take place in early 2016 following negotiations between the two entities' presidents, a Turkish government source said July 2.

Negotiations to settle Cyprus's division are starting to show some progress, Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said on July 2, in an unusually upbeat assessment on prospects of ending one of Europe's oldest conflicts.
 

Rival Cypriot leaders have made progress on the prickly core issues of putting the divided island back together again, UN envoy Espen Barth Eide said on June 29.